While I was driving back to my dorm today, I noticed a bumper sticker that said, "Darwin loves you." Now, this is a really odd bumper sticker. I'm used to seeing the Jesus fish with legs and the word "Darwin" inside. And being I don't agree that Darwinism is the evolution of Christianity, I find it extremely hard to believe that someone might be misled to believe that Darwin loves them.
Yes, I will concede that Darwin probably loved someone in his life, but looking at Darwinism in its most extreme form, extreme evolutionism, it is hard to see how someone with that belief can truly love a person in the most real sense of the word "love." Now, that might have been a bold statement, but let me explain.
When looking at extreme evolutionism, one must understand that it hinges on the fact that all has evolved and that is the basis for all that is around us. In believing that God was not the factor, but rather than the random chance of events causes how things have evolved through the ages, how can one have a vested interest in the human person? If random chance is the author, then what is love based on? If God doesn't have any relevance to the way things are, then how can we know what love is; what is there to compare it to? A human emotion? Still, we must compare it to something to know what it is not. In doing this we then boil down to what things are, and we get into a debate over what is real or not. This only leads to determining whether or not there is an absolute truth in anything. Through this all, we haven't been able to prove one bit that Darwin loves us. All we've been able to go to is the question whether or not there is an absolute truth. If the answer is yes, then working backwards from our questions leading up to the question of absolute truth leads us to the question of what love is and whether or not there is a God. If the answer is no to God's existence, then we can only go in circles, being that we have established that absolute truth exists. If the answer is yes to God's existence, then we look at what evolution actually means. And that leads us to what Darwin was trying to prove. Granted, Darwin might not have been trying to prove what people have taken his teachings to mean, but his views led to the belief that God is not important in the development of all creation. If evolution is placed under the guidance of the hand of the Lord, then we ar presented with a much different idea, and Darwin might actually be able to love people. If evolution is void of God's guiding hand, then there is no way that Darwin could have loved us because the human person would be nothing more than a random chance of organized cells creating a being in place solely to keep itself alive. What love is there?
Monday, October 03, 2005
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